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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-20
THE RAILROADS.
Alexander Mitchell, President OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul and
Prominent Democrat, Dead.
The AUChison -GuIf-PrOgress on the Fort
Worth and Dsnver-A Mile Day.
Home Notes.
Homo Notes.

The Express companies here report a
boom in business since the late rains.
c. B. Jones, stock agent of the AtChi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe, is in the city.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company has
let a contract for a $4,000 hotel at
Hutchinson, Kan.
George NJ. Gray, one of the pioneer
train dispaChers of Texas, was in Fort
Werth last night.
The st. Louis Railway Register say,
''the motto of the Fort Worth and Denver
is 'On 10 Denver"
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande keeps
up its steady march for Granbury at the
rate Of q mile day.
WI. Sherman, Assistant Chief En-
gineer Of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe is in Fort Worth.
Tracklaying Ion the Fort Worth aud
Denver has reached point twenty
miles beyond Quanah.
The Missouri Pacific north bound was
several hours late last night owing to q
wreck near HillsbOrO.
The Rock Island Railroad Company
broke ground at HutChisOn, Kan, April
!, for q 500, 900 hotel.
President 4. L. Rhomberg of the Aus
tin and Northwestern is in Fort Worth in
the interest of his road.
The annual meeting of the directors of
the AtchiSon, Topeka and Santa Fe takes
place in Topeka on May 5.
G. L. Harrison, southern passenger
agent of the Chicago and Northwestern,
was in Fort Worth last night.
The wires were kept hot just after the
heavy rain in carrying the news to New
York men interested in Fort Worth rail
roads
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe con-
tinues to throw material into the Terri
tory for the main line extension at a
lively rate.
1t is said the Atchison-G Gulf will estab-
IiSh large stock pens in this city as soon
as the road is completed. Fort Worth
will be feeding point.
Hugh Burns, a we'll known railroad
contractor now at wSrk on the Missouri
Pacific from Bastrop to Houston, was in
Fort Worth yesterday.
Robert D. Berry, agent of the Morgan
Steamship Line, was in Fort Worth yes
terday. Mr.. Berry is seriously thinking
Of making Fort Worth his headquarters.
The Texas and Pacific is making quite
an Improvement at the Union depot,
tearing up the old platform and replacing
it with new, putting down the boards the
reverse of what they are now.
The piping in the great srtesian well of
the Texas aud Pacific at Fort Worth is
going down steadily and 1t will be but
few days until the perpetual springs of
pure water underlying Fort Worth will
be reached.
THE GAZETTE has caught on to the
ragged edges of some very interesting
news in regard to the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific and when it plants it.
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THE FgNEsr CARS ON WHEELS.

INSPECTION OF THE NEW VESTIBULE PAT
TERN FOR THE PENNs YLvANIA "LIM-
TIED"
The train OF cars which George NJ.
Pullman, General Manager Brown, and
Superintendent Wicks yesterday exhib-
tied to couple OF dozen gentlemen, dur
ing a short run southwark on the Him
els Central, are without doubt the most
beautiful cars ever manufactured.
They are Of the new vesti-
bule pattern, the platforms being
covered by handsome roofs and inclOsed
by walls, forming passage-way as safe
and comfortable as within the car itself
To provide Tor the uneven oscillation Of
the cars while in motion the vestibule
and buffers are covered with rubber
folds which meet and press together.
completely excluding draughtS of
air from without. The passsge-ways
through the vestibules are well lighted
from sides and top, and the floor is con-
tiuuOUs, SO that child may run from one
end Of the train to the other with entire
safety. There are 10 more couplings to
be made with the vestibule platforms than
with the common exposed ones. the pro-
j"Cting ends being simply formed into
rubber buffers. Ali present were de-
lighted with the novel device, as we'll
as with the beauty of the
upholstering and decorations Of the
coaches. a railroad man present said he
had seen the finest railroad cars in ali
countries, and that these were the most
perfect specimens of the car builders
art in existence. The artists and me-
chanIcs at Pullman who built these cars
are justly very proud of their handiWOrk.
IN the parlor car are barber shop and
BATH room, and the parlor is fitted up
with library, writing desks, and other
conveniences. It is understood that
three trains of these cars are to be built for
the Pennsylvania line, 10 run as the limited
passenger train between NewYork and Cal
cago. They will, without doubt, be the
most splendid trains in the world. Colo
mel Wood, the general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania, was On the train yes
terday, as were a number of local rail
road and newspaper men, ard Rev.
David Swing - rChicago Herald.
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Dakota,s Prairtn Fires.

FARGO, D. T., April 19.-The prairie
fires extended over wide districts in q
dozen or more counties from central
Dakota to Lincoln, which are among the
older aud most thickly settled parts of
the territory. The local papers have
many columns Ct losses, comprising
dwellings, barns, granaries, baystaCks
and in several instances towns and vii
lagos were only saved by the active
efforts of citizens. No estimate is given
of the aggregate losses. There are only
two instances of persons fatally injured.
Regions that suffered from the drouth or
fires of last year escaped this spring, as
there was little to feed the flames. 4
heavy rain followed the fires.
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Difference IN Rates.

SAN Francisco, CAL, April 19.-The
comparative tariffs in the Southern Pa
cifc Company and Canadian Pacific Com
pany printed here shows that, owing to
the inter state commerce law the latter
company can make rate from San Fran
cisco to Chicago and common points much
less than the former. The difference in
favor of the Canadian Pacific ranges from
S44 to S188 per carload, according to the
class of freight. A delegation of prom
inent Californians is now en- route to
Washington to lay the matter before the
commission and obtain a suspension of
the fourth clause.
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Fort Worth and BIO Grande.
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence Of the Gazette.
GRANBURY, TEX, April 18.-Grading
on the Fort Worth and Rio Grande is at
last completed to the depot grounds with
the exception of few more days work
on the enormous rock cut near the river.
The large forces of workmen of Colonel
Hughes and Captain Marshall are leaving
IN all directions for their homes, with a
view of planting crops since the general
rains. The general impression among
railroaders and business men is that the
road will stop here at least six months,
and some think as long as twelve months.
The longer Granbury is the terminus the
better it will be for the business interests
of the town.
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Gable Notes.

PARIS, April lie Temps ssys the
malady from which the German Crown
Prince is suffering is ! cancer of the
tongue.
L'Univers seyS the decision of the
holy office on the Knights Of labor ques :
ton, given to Cardinal Gibbons before
his departure from Rome, was MI limo
vetur, signifyiug that IN view of the
representations made by the Cardinal in
his memorial on the subject, there was no
occasion for intervention On the p&rt of
the church.
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Bonham Notes.

Special to the Gazette.
BONHAM, TEX, April 19.-It is under
stood that the Deuison, Bonham and New
Orleans Railroad has been permanently
located through the city at last, and that
the construction has been placed in the
hands Of a competent superintendent,
who will push the work Of building both
from this and the Denison end of the
line.
a handsome platform has been added
to the Texas and Pacific depot at this
place, which adds greatly to the appear
ance and convenience of same.
Since the late rains the pond at the
machine shops of the Texas and Pacific
road has been filed and the water train
which has been running for some time
past, has been abandoned.
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Decatur NoteR.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette. 4.
DECATUR, TEX, April 19-At 2 O'Clock
this evening the officials and citizens will
assemble at the city hall, ga Ia Fort
WORTH" to "ring out the old and ring in
the new" mayor.
Farmers are wearing smiles now, and
can promise themselves Christmas egg
nog. But this is local option town, and
they can't get it.
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When the Delegates Pass Expired.

Martin Maginnis and wife, en- route
from Washington, were overtaken by the
Interstate commerce law at midnight the
4th inst, at Glendive, and the Major was
obliged to come to the front 10 the tune
of $50 in order to maintain terms of
friendship with the conductor to degree
that would insure Immediate rides for
himself and spouse the remaining
distance home Butte On. t. Miner.
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a Burglary.
Special to the Gazette.

NEW Boston, TEX, April 19.-Cracks-
men entered the store of J. c. Tyson of
this place, and bowed off the outside
door of his safe, but finding a burglar
proof vault on the inside they retired
apparently without securing any cash.
Everything goes to show that they were
old hands at the business, as the work
was cleverly executed, besides leaving
not single trace behind them.
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He Rode.

The Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail
road demanded, under cover of the inter-
state commerce bill, life pass previous
ly granted a Fort Wayne merchant, in
consideration of a graat Of land The
merchant gave up the pass, but he has
been riding free up and down the line
ever since, vainly looking for a conductor
who dares to put him off the train.
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Continued from First Pace.

Turkey. In the letter to the Khedive Ell
Mahdi says: "If you will recognize me
IS the trGe Mahdi you will be saved and
we will be frien6g, otherwise l will
march forward and the same fate will
befau you IS overlook your generals"
Ell Mahdi addressed Queen Vict0ria as
''the favoTits of her people,
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Badly Bruised,
SpecIa, to the Gazette.

CLEBURNE, TEX, April 19.-This even
ing about 2:30 o'clock horse ridden by
negro became unmansgeaole and began
to pitch. Uncle Billy Hodge, an old and
respected citizen, being in the way Ras
run over and badly bruised, being knock
hOmA
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A Move by Armour.

SELMA, ALA, April l9.-Armour & Co.
of C3icago closed q contract to-day with
the Selma Land Company for the erection
of an extensive warehouse and refrigera-
tor for meats
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A Mine on Fire.

CONNELLVILLE, Pa, April 19.-The fire
at the Davidson mine is still burning.
All hope OF rescuing the three imprisoned
miners has been abandoned. The mine
has been sealed'up to smother the flames.
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FREE to Passengers holding First Glass
Through Tickets
Houston and Texas Central R'y,

THE ONLY ALL-sTEEL LINE IN THE@sTATE.
Double daily trains each way. Through
Sleepers between New Orleans&s.and st,
Louis on TRIMS aud 4, and between Galveston
and st. Louis on Trains and 2,via Dallas,
Denison and Sedalia. Sleeper between Hous-
ton and Austin. Through Tickets to all points.
Quickest route to New Ore MS and points In
the Southeast. Choice Of routes via Denison
and st. Louis, or Houston aad New Orleans.
Steamship tickets to or from any point in
Europe.
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TEXAS and PACIFIC.
EAST BOUND.
TRANSCONTINENTAL.
NORTH BOUND.

NORTH BOUND.
Fort Worth, WhltesbOrO and Arrive. Leave.
Texarbana .................. 7:I0 a N 7:45 a N
Fort Worth, Sherman and
Texarkana. 500 pm 9:2Opm
SOUTH BOUND.
Fort Worth -. 8:OOpm 8:2Opm
TeXarkana, Sherman ana
Fort Wortb....-............ Sis m $40 a II
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TRNOrk' Strike.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April I9.-Four
hundred tailors struck to-day because
their employers refused to adopt the new
scale of wages presented by the union.
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GULF, COLORADO AND sANTAFE.
SOUTH BOUND .

SOUTH BOUND.
Bail and EXPRESS. daily. s 80 N $40 q L
Accommodation, mixed train 700 p I
AcCon mediation, mix ed train STOP m
NORTH BOUND.
EiaU and express, daily. S:45pm 9:O5 p I
Accommodation, mixed train 7:45 q 1
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HOUSTON AND TEXAS CENTRAL.

Leave, Arrive.
FxDresg trains...............5 500 p m 1915 a N
Mixed trains. ............... 2:EO m 1855 a N
P. A MILLER, Ticket Agent.
Depot near corner of Jones street and Dag
gett avenue. CITY office 403 Main street
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LIFE STRANGELY LOST.
AN ENGINEER DIES FROM SHOCK AT TIE
DEATH OF BRAKEMAN

AN ENGINEER DIES FROM SHOCK AT TEE
DEATH OF BRAKEMAN.
Just at dusk last night yard shifting
engine of the Pennsylvania Railroad was
making up freight train for the West
ct Thirty ninth street and the main line.
Jacob Mccall, young man OF twenty
four, was the engineer, ard Terence
McM6nus, three years his senior,
the brakeman. The shifter had
hauled half dozen cars into position, and
had got out of the way of an express for
Broad street, when it started down the
Fortleth street siding for two more cars.
Mccall was in the cab and his brake man
on the little step which serves shifter
for pilot. As the engine neared the
cars McManus waved his hand back
to the engineer, and the latter put
on the brake. The brake did rot
work. In q moment the shifter and
freight car came together, not as usual
with hump, but with a sickening buffet
of human flesh and blood between wood
end iron. Brakeman McManus, caught
at the groin, Was ffattened into 3 shape
less mass again-t the end of the car.
A track hand Ieaped into the
cab and shouted to Engineer Nc
Call, who stood stock still with
his hand on the lever, "Reverse.you
reversed" Engineer Mccall made no re
Spouse. The track hand SHOOK him. En-
gineer Mccall was dead The railroad
men found when they took his body to
his home at No. 1929 Lancaster avenue
that he had been subject for long time
to heart disease, and the doctor said that
the brakeman's awful death before his
eyes was the cause of his sudden taking
Off PHILADELPHIA Press.
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amounted to sI,949,S11, against s2,1l6,-
23O for the preceding week, a decrease
of SI66,292,
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FORT WORTH AND DENVER.

North bound ................ $3.50 n
south bound. ............... 4:2Opm
Ali the above from the Union Depot,
G. D. lUSR, Ticket Agent.
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RAILROADS.
LOCAL TIME TABLE.
MISSOURI PACIFIC
NORTH BOUND.

NORTH BOUND.
Arrive. Leave.
laredo and ST. Louis =. 7:IO q m 7:45 a N
San Antonio and st. Louis. 900 p N 9:20 N
SOUTH BOUND.
st. Louis and LaredO........ S:00p m POI m
st. Louis and san Antonio. o.. Sis a IA $40 q m
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rectly or indirectly, more than sufficient
to raise this sum, even at 81 each.
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Going North.

p. A. MILLER, Ticket Agent, Fort " orth,
r.. r, ROBINS, 7. P. A., Fort Worth.
A. FAULKNER, Gen. Pass, Agent, Houston
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Central and Southwest
Texas to All Points
North, East and
West.

Double daily service of elegant Pullman
Buffet and Steering Cars between San Antonio
and Kansas City and st. Louis.
Don he deceived, but call for your tickets
via he Missouri Pacific Railway.
For any desired information, tickets, maps
folders, etc., call on o. ID. LUSEs
Ticket Agent, Fort Worth.
J. H. MILLER,
Northern Texas Pass. Agent, Dallas, Tex,
B.. MCCULLOUGH,
General Pass. and TicketA gent.
, 1887-10-11
TIE NEW DRY GOODS HOUSE.
The Large Stock and Fine Display a
Mrs. Z. Walkers

Mrs. E. Walker has been in the mill
merry business in this city for nearly twenty
years, during which time she has gained
the esteem and confidence of all. Realiz
ing recently that the city was sadly in
need of a first class dry goods house, she
concluded to add that branch to her large
establishment in the Carey block. With
a view to securing a large share of this
line of trade, she went East last August
and selected an immense stock of goods.
The tact that the fall opening would COM
mence to-day and continue during the
week has been extensively advertised.
1t is safe to say that no such stock of
dry goods was ever before placed on sale
in Cheyenne. This department is in
charge of d. r. Cowbick, who has handled
that line in this city for several years. He
takes special delight in exhibiting the fine
silk, satin, velvet and worsted dress goods
and the handsomest and cheapest line of
plush trimmings to be found in the west.
The sales Saturday and yesterday were
simply enormous. Twenty cases of dry
goods were on hand when the opening
commenced and twenty more were in tran
sit. Last night still another large
order was made out for street jackets,
newmarkets and plush cloaks. In ad
dition to a large and well selected stock of
dry goods a fine line of notions is carried
while the hat department contains the
only selection Of latest style in the city.
The stock of millinery carried will be
larger and more choice than ever before,
while prices on all goods will be the lowest.
, 1887-10-11

DENVER, Oct. lO.-The announcement
this afternoon of the closing of the West
Cliff bank at that place, which is a branch
of NJ. E. Post & Co., of Cheyenne, caused
the widest excitement as nearly every
business man here and a few in Silver
Cliff are ~depositors, and should the failure
be complete a number will suffer quite
severely. The complications which have
brought about this sudden and unlocked
for trouble exist not with the bank here,
which is solid, 50 to speak, having money
and collateral more than sufficient to sat
isfy the depositors dollar for dollar.
The bank is guarded by Under Sheriff
Carr, g. II. johnson, of the Security
Mining company, and VIM. Wolf, both of
whom have large deposits therein.
Mr.. McGill, from the Cheyenne bank,
arrived this afternoon, but has been re-
fused admission to the bank. In an in
terview this evening he stated that the
embarrassment would be but temporary,
as the resources of Post & Co. we're in
excess of liabilities about $780, 600.
Should an investigation be permitted by
the now excited people, it is thought ar.
engagements will be made whereby every
depositor viii be satisfied.
, 1887-10-11
MCCOY N Leroy.
Ihey Steal Horse at laramie River
and Elude the Posses.

Messrs. j.. G. Spencer, Frank ALE
bach and Joe Allison of Beaver creek ar
rived from the north last evening. The
gentlemen state that Mccoy and Leroy
were followed by Oscar Sharpless and his
posse Friday afternoon until darkness
called a halt. The criminals and officers
were within a few miles of each other for
several hours. Sometime during the
night Mccoy and Leroy entered the
stable ola Laramie ranchmen and stole two
horses. The slipper tracks were plainly
visible to the pursuers the following morn.
ing.
Fully seventy-tive armed and mounted
men have left Lusk since the above was
learned and are determined % effect the
capture of the fleeing pair, dead or alive.
There is a woman living heal Lusk who
was present during the trial here and who
visited him several times in the jail. 1t
Is more than likely that he will call on her
if possible.
Deputy Sheriff Owens telegraphed
Sheriff Sharpless yesterday that he was
confident himself and posse were on the
trail of Mccoy and Leroy and would
soon capture them.
Many people, among the number sew
eral officials stoutly maintain that Jones
is still in Cheyenne.
, 1887-10-11
Personal POINTS.

Geo. X. McGill is in Denver.
Chas. G. ingalls,, Sturgis, OAK, is in
town.
Chas. Dryden, Rapid City, Oak. is in
the city.
N. r. Davis returned from Denver last
evening.
W. II. Cooke, Meeker, Colo, is regist-
cred at the Inter Ocean.
Richard Ryan, of the contracting firm
j. j. Brown II Co., has returned from
Denver.
NJ. H. DeYoung, editor and proprietor
of tie San Francisco Chronicle, was an
east bound passenger Sunday.
c. B. Wells, son of Prof. Wells, ar
rived from Rawlins yesterday morning
and is visiting CHEYENNE friends.
Chas. Croker, president of the Central
Pacific railway, accompanied by his family.
occupied a fine special car attached to the
east bound train Sunday.
Isaac Bergman returned from New
York last evening. He was called east
by the demise of his aged mother, which
occurred about ten days ago.
, 1887-10-11

That Mr.. Milton Mobiles is a man OF
more than ordinary versatile talents has
long been conceded. An actor of good
ability, he is also a dramatist of no NEAR
order. For several years he has enjoyed
a popularity in eccentric comedy dramas
of his own writing, and has shown a dis.
position to improve the quality of his
work, both as a player and a writer. He
has reached a plane in his new play, From
SIRE to Son, that must entitle him to
more respect than many Of his casual
critics have seen fit to accord him in the
past. Mr.. Mobiles and company will APP
pear at the opera house for one night
only, Friday, Oct. IA.